Word: combat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Messrs. Bacon, Hooper, Simmons, Welling, and Stow. The contest between the two classes (which was drawn by lot) was sharp but short. '79 drew '80 over the dividing line, the first time in 10 seconds and the second time in 7 seconds. '80 was thus placed hors de combat. The next tug was between '78 and '81. '78's team was made up of Messrs. Bancroft, Warden, Littauer, Brown, Yates; '81, W. A. Howe, Cruger, Otis, Howard, North. Captain Bancroft led the Seniors, and Captain North the Freshmen. The first heat was won by '78 in 17 seconds. The struggle...
...real Princetonian ferocity. On the evening of the 18th a number of Freshmen entered a Sophomore's room, and after tying the inmates to their chairs, shaved their heads, and then beat an orderly retreat. They were pursued by the irate Sophomores, when released by their friends, and a combat ensued. Pistol-shots were exchanged, and one of the Sophomores was wounded in the thigh. Dr. McCosh and the Faculty are doing their best to preserve order; but in spite of their efforts Nassau Hall is, and promises to be for some time, in a state of intense excitement...
...other, the exchange of widely differing ideas would tend to reduce their surprising theories to a comparatively practical form. And now, when clubs are being formed for almost every purpose, why can we not have one for the discussion of political and social matters? A word combat between witty and intelligent men would certainly be amusing; and the habit of a weekly or a fortnightly glance at the political world might enable the students of to-day to make, when they fairly enter that sphere, a more practically useful, if not a more striking, display of their patriotic enthusiasm than...
...high. How glad we should be to bid farewell to the ancient structure! There is but one thing to mar our joy. "How can we bear to leave you," O boxes, whence we issued forth on those eventful afternoons feeling ourselves able to win victory from whatsoever club might combat us, on whose doors are inscribed the beloved names of Bush, Wells, Eustis, Perrin, White, and others over whose memories we linger with feelings nearly akin to reverence? But our sadness departs when we remember that those doors will be preserved and inlaid on the frescoed walls of the future...
...essay on the "Influence and Education of Woman" is especially interesting at present. At the time of its publication he had much stronger public prejudice to combat than exists now. In speaking of the influence of woman, he says: "We do not wish to increase that influence, but to direct it to loftier and more salutary purposes." This, it seems to me, is the true spirit in which to undertake reform in woman's condition...